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trading twilight for daylight
by: thunderings
Final Fantasy X-2, Tidus/Yuna, & his face has become blurred, tainted with time, and she cries because it's only a matter of time before she truly forgets him.

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Sometimes Yuna has nightmares.

And they are always about him.

The beginning is always the same, but the ending varies from a certain degree every time: they're standing on the airship, with the sun dipping below the purple and pink hued clouds. She cries and she begs and she pleads that maybe, just maybe, the fayth can be persuaded to let him stay. Yet he only stands there, (sometimes he replies and sometimes he doesn't) and then jumps off the airship with Yuna left screaming on the deck.

(Even when twilight is traded for daylight, the nightmares still continue)

His face has become blurry; some days she cannot even remember whether his eyes were azure or hazel or even jade hued. She has taken to sleeping with her kimono, because his scent still lingers on the yellow bow, or even between the folds of the purple skirt. The inhabitants of Besaid start forgetting him; occasionally Yuna mentions his name, and they only stare at her blankly. When this happens Yuna runs to the beach and begins to cry, because if the populace of Besaid has forgotten him, it's only a matter of time before she forgets too.

The nightmare continues for two long years, until Yuna wonders what it would be like to disappear under the emerald and crystalline waters and never have to face the blank stares when his name is mentioned, or how she can't even remember how his kisses felt, and perhaps be rid of the intense hunger and need to feel the flames of that fateful fire on her face with him by her side.

(That is until Rikku appears one day on the island, with a sphere in her sun kissed hands)